The gameplay patch isn’t right here but, however it doesn’t imply we now have to take a seat round and complain. It is vitally unlikely anyone participant has exhausted the total depth of what Dota has to supply even with none exterior modifications, so in the present day we want to spotlight some additional enjoyable concepts and interactions you can check out to combine up your pubs.
This can be a very enjoyable lane combo that could be very in style within the skilled scene. It creates a kind of “optimistic suggestions loop” that basically makes each hero exceptionally onerous to kill, so long as they get to assault their opponents.
Tether supplies all of the therapeutic Io receives to a related teammate. 
Sidekick offers Marci and her ally additional assault injury and in addition makes them share lifesteal. So, each time Marci assaults, she heals Io, which heals Marci again by means of Tether.
It absolutely works the opposite approach as nicely, so maybe getting a 
Wraith Band or a 
Bracer on Io for the laning stage isn’t a foul concept. With each Sidekick and Tether at degree two, this duo is already very potent each by way of injury output and by way of their survivability. Afterward they’re downright oppressive and possibly a tad overpowered, until the enemy commits severe sources in direction of itemising towards this duo particularly.
It needs to be famous that Marci doesn’t farm creeps rapidly sufficient and would possibly have to get a 
Battle Fury to remain related as a carry, which is a large tempo loss. Because of this we personally favor this duo within the offlane, the place Marci’s job is to run round and create area. With gadgets like 
Black King Bar and 
Cranium Basher she will 2v2 towards most heroes, getting her gold by means of kills and assists.
This can be a very unreliable mixture, because it solely works in 1v1 situations, however the impact it supplies will be game-turning. When OD has his 
Aghanim’s Scepter, he will get a pseudo 
Aeon Disk that blocks one occasion of harm that might put OD under 20% HP, and as a substitute applies a robust dispel and provides OD an HP barrier.
What it means is that when beneath the results of 
False Promise, any injury that OD takes turns into non-fatal, so long as he has his Aghanim’s improve off-cooldown. And so long as OD fights in a 1v1 state of affairs, he can take as a lot injury as he needs and he’ll nonetheless find yourself alive after False Promise expires.
It really works as a result of False Promise sums up all injury dealt by a single goal into one occasion, an occasion that may be blocked by OD Aghanim’s after False Promise expires. For a similar cause it doesn’t work constantly when OD is attacked by a number of totally different targets.
This idea, together with single injury supply interactions solely, will be utilized to Aeon Disk as nicely. The caveat is that you must use False Promise fairly early, as Aeon Disk procs at 70% HP, quite than 20% HP. On the identical time, having 10 seconds of precise injury invulnerability, with out the draw back of not having the ability to deal injury your self, will be value it in some circumstances.
Earlier than you ask: we tried backpacking Aeon Disk and placing it into the principle stock when taking injury beneath the results of False Promise, in order that the backpack cooldown on Aeon Disk and it’s 2.5 seconds of invulnerability timed exactly with the tip of False Promise and… the outcomes are disappointingly predictable: the goal nonetheless dies, even with the “Combo Breaker” buff nonetheless current.
It appears we must anticipate the subsequent gameplay patch for a while nonetheless, however it doesn’t imply our video games must all play out the identical. Be artistic and modern, particularly since getting Crownfall tokens requires taking part in very totally different heroes.
Additionally don’t overlook to share your individual cool concepts and interactions within the remark part under. There are others we’re nonetheless testing out and theorycrafting, so we’d make one other comparable weblog submit a while sooner or later.
